| PHYS 326 - QUANTUM MECHANICS II |
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| Semester: | Spring 2007 | |||
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| Instructor: | Cemal Yalabik | |||
| Office: | Room SA-228 | |||
| Office Hours: | wednesday | 12:40 - 13:30 | Room SA-228 | |
| All other times | (if available - call 1316 to check) | Room EA-G11 | ||
| Assistant: | Haldun Sevincli | Office: SA-207 | ||
| Homework: | Policy | Assignments | ||
| Exams & Grading: | (You can prepare notes on a single sheet of paper to bring to the exam.) | |||
| First Exam | 25% | Mar. 6, 10:40 | B-205 | |
| Second Exam | 25% | Apr. 17, 10:40 | B-205 | |
| Final Exam | 35% | May 21, 15:30 | SA-Z18 | |
| Homework+Quizzes | 15% | |||
| Course Schedule: | ||||
| Tuesday | 10:40 - 12:30 | Room SA-Z19 | ||
| Thursday | 11:40 - 12:30 | Room SA-Z19 | ||
| Recitation: | ||||
| Thursday | 10:40 - 11:30 | Room SA-Z19 | ||
| Textbook: | ||||
| Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by Griffiths | ||||
Homework for this week: There will be weekly homework assignments in this course. Homework is due on the Tuesday of the following week at 10:45, in class, before class starts.
You can view your grades through the Student BAIS system. You are also encouraged to discuss course related matters in the "student-forum" for this course at the same address.
| Week | Subject | Exam | Review of Angular Momentum and Spin, The Stern-Gerlach experiment Addition of Angular Momenta, Clebsch-Gordan ceofficients Identical Particles, the Exchange Effect Free-electron gas, statistical properties Introductory Quantum Statistical Mechanics, the distributions Review and First Exam#1 | Time Independent Perturbation Theory Degenerate Perturbation Theory Applications of Perturbation Theory More applications Mid-semester Break Review and Second Exam#2 The Variational Principle and Applications The WKB method and Applications More Applications | |
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